Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Will Grissom is an assistant professor in biomedical engineering, radiology, and electrical engineering. This video was produced by Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization. “I live for the problems we get to solve,” says Will Grissom, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, radiology and electrical engineering. The problems Grissom… Read More

Of all the professors who spoke during a recent International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine course, the crowd appreciated Vanderbilt Engineering’s Bennett Landman the most. Bennett Landman Landman, assistant professor of electrical engineering, learned this week that he won… Read More

If Scott Potter is on your TV, it’s probably not going to be good news. The director of Nashville’s water and sewer system earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University and often wears his school lanyard on camera. He’s got the difficult job of telling residents… Read More

Charleson Bell pitches Flash Crystal at Spark Nashville, held Thursday at Events on Third in downtown Nashville. Tech lovers crowded three stories of a downtown Nashville event space Thursday night, standing in hushed silence as two Vanderbilt engineers and eight other inventors argued in 90 seconds each… Read More

Three of 10 startups presenting at the Spark Nashville elevator pitch competition are creations of Vanderbilt University School of Engineering doctoral and post-doctoral students. PinPTR, developed by Will Hedgecock, is a GPS-based locator technology that’s cost-effective with unprecedented accuracy. FlashCrystal,… Read More

  Robots simulating radiation damage (left) and normal function (right). After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, investigators used robots to determine the extent of the damage and begin cleaning up. The question is how well robots can stand up… Read More

(iStock) Two researchers in Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering recently shared in a $300,000 award to fund their studies into how the brain works. Deyu Li Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Deyu Li and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Yaqiong Xu received the award, one… Read More

Janos Sztipanovits, director of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems, will serve on the committee guiding ongoing creation of and setting standards for the Industrial Internet. Vanderbilt was the first academic institution to join the Industrial Internet Consortium Steering Committee after the consortium was announced in March. Technology giants AT&T, Cisco,… Read More

LASIR wind tunnel. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) More than 150 people showed up Aug. 14 for the grand opening of the School of Engineering’s new Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability (LASIR). The visitors to the spacious, 20,000-square-foot facility were dwarfed by the airframe of the military heavy-lift… Read More

Before Sheryll Cashin was a Georgetown University law professor, acclaimed author and popular speaker, she was an undergrad fresh from Huntsville, Ala., studying electrical engineering at Vanderbilt. Sheryll Cashin (BE'84) The transition was nearly seamless, she said, after spending time in a summer program at… Read More